The entire play is set on a stage that is undecorated, and its characters are dressed in everyday clothes. ![]() ![]() At the same time, it humanizes the plights of the wrongly incarcerated, showing that they were able to see the humor and beauty in some of the most inconceivably bleak situations. The Exonerated illuminates some of the most serious and urgent flaws in the American justice system, affirming that its frequent undue criminalization of innocent people amounts to a state-committed atrocity. The characters are based on real individuals whom the playwrights interviewed extensively while writing their story. ![]() First released in 2002, it profiles six Americans who were wrongly convicted and given death sentences they spent a cumulative total of more a century in prison before being exonerated. The Exonerated is a dramatic play written and directed, in its premiere, by American playwrights Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank.
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